Overview

Setting up XDE for a project means laying the foundation that enables team members to work on the same model at the
same time. Developing complex systems requires that groups of analysts, architects, and developers have the ability see
and access the "big picture" at the same time as they are working on their own portion of that picture-simultaneously.
Successfully managing an environment in which multiple team members have different kinds of access to the same model
requires:

Tailor XDE Templates and
Defaults (optional)

You can optionally create your own specialized templates. Rational XDE lets you set properties and options such as
default fonts, colors, line styles, file storage options, the ways in which stereotypes and other information are
presented, and the profiles that are applied.

Reference: Setting Up and Managing the Modeling
Environment.

Create XDE Projects and XDE Models

The term "project" is primarily used in RUP to refer to the entire software development effort.

In Microsoft .NET, the overall software development is called the "Solution." A Solution is
composed of one or more XDE projects (or more precisely, .NET projects) that contain XDE models, source code, and other
files.

In the Java Platform Edition, the overall software development effort is referred to as the "application." A J2EE
application is composed of one or more XDE projects that contain XDE models, source code, and other files.

Similarly, the "model" work products in RUP are conceptual work products that could be composed of multiple XDE models
spanning multiple XDE projects.